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February 25 - 27, 2025
Austin Marriott Downtown
Austin, TX

Meet 800+ Policymakers, Utilities & Renewable Players Working to Seize the Opportunities and Meet the Challenges of Burgeoning Texas Load Growth

Faced with an unprecedented expansion of energy demand across Texas, driven by new data centers, manufacturing facilities, electrification of the oil industry in the Permian Basin and the state’s growing population, the ERCOT market must generate, transmit and distribute 152 GWs of reliable power by 2030, up from the 89 GWs of today. The need to rapidly buildup system capacity is more intense than ever, along with attracting massive investment to deliver this avalanche of new generation, storage, transmission and distribution capacity. Simultaneously, the many market and rule reforms mandated by 2023 legislation (including the $5B Texas Energy Fund), aimed at increasing generation capacity and operational reliability, are being rolled out. What will the ERCOT power market of the future look like? Where will opportunities, challenges and risks lie? Anyone engaged with the ERCOT power market would have plenty of questions in such an “interesting” time.

Fortunately, Infocast has the answers. At our ERCOT Market Summit 2025 we have put together a truly remarkable discussion by Texas policy makers, regulators, utility executives, renewable and dispatchable generation developers, financiers and other experts of what the ERCOT of 2025 and beyond will look like and act like. They will highlight opportunities, challenges and strategies being utilized by leading players.

Infocast's ERCOT Market Summit 2025 will provide an unparalleled deep dive into resource adequacy; grid upgrades; power prices; project siting, interconnection and bankability; and how to best meet the shifting needs of commercial, industrial, and retail customers.

This unparalleled group of experts and insiders will:

  • Share the latest information on policy developments in the 89th Legislative Session, their potential impacts on the ERCOT market, and how market participants are responding
  • Assess how the new regulatory and market rule changes being implemented now will impact ERCOT in 2025 and beyond
  • Hear how well the Texas Energy Fund is working to drive investment in dispatchable assets
  • Explore the opportunities and challenges of reliably supplying power to new AI data centers and large flexible loads
  • Examine how interconnection and planning processes are changing to deal with the sudden new reality of supplying over 60 GW of additional load
  • Gain the perspectives of financiers on how policy and regulatory risks are affecting their decision-making regarding financing dispatchable generation, wind, solar, and storage projects in ERCOT
  • Explore the huge opportunities and dangers of developing storage in ERCOT
  • Evaluate how proposed solutions to increase capacity and improve reliability could affect energy costs and asset profitability

Last year Infocast's ERCOT Market Summit reached new heights of attendance and audience satisfaction. Attend the ERCOT Market Summit along with 800 of your peers and take advantage of your best opportunity to connect with key players and hear their plans for the upcoming year, while obtaining critical insights into the business environment of the next five years.

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FEATURED SPEAKERS

 

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KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Senator Charles Schwertner
STATE OF TEXAS

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KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Chairman Thomas J. Gleeson
PUBLIC UTILITY
COMMISSION OF TEXAS

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Ned Bonskowski
Vice President, Texas Regulatory Policy
VISTRA

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Carl Cho
Head of Underwriting, Power, Clean Energy and Chemicals
CITIGROUP

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Katie Coleman
Partner
TEXAS INDUSTRIAL ENERGY CONSUMERS

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Keith Emery, P.E.
Senior Vice President, Origination
TENASKA POWER SERVICES

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Michael Enger
Vice President, Market Operations & Resource Planning
AUSTIN ENERGY

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Beth Garza
Senior Fellow
R STREET INSTITUTE

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Prabhu Gnanam
Director, Grid Planning
ERCOT

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Robert Helton
Vice President, Government & Regulatory Affairs
ENGIE NORTH AMERICA INC.

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Travis Kavulla
Vice President, Regulatory Affairs
NRG ENERGY

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Michael Lee
Chief Executive Officer
OCTOPUS ENERGY

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Brooke Malik
Director, Business Development
LIGHTSOURCE BP

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Laura Merten
Policy Manager
APEX CLEAN ENERGY

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Brad Richter
Senior Vice President, Energy
HUT 8 CORP

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Jason M. Ryan
Executive Vice President, Regulatory Services and Government Affairs
CENTERPOINT ENERGY

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Allan Schurr
Chief Commercial Officer
ENCHANTED ROCK

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Caitlin Smith
Vice President, Policy & Corporate Communications
JUPITER POWER

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Stephanie Smith
Chief Operating Officer
EOLIAN ENERGY

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Tracy Stoddard
Vice President, Business Development
ACCIONA ENERGY

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David Stoppel
Executive Director, Energy Investments
J.P. MORGAN

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Fred Thiel
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
MARA

HEAR FROM INDUSTRY LEADERS & EXPERTS

 

  • Acciona Energy
  • ACCURE Battery Storage
  • Advanced Power Alliance
  • Anza
  • Apex Clean Energy
  • Arroyo Investors
  • Ascend Analytics
  • Association of Electric Companies of Texas (AECT)
  • Aurora Energy Research
  • Austin Energy
  • Baker Botts
  • Bitdeer Group
  • Calpine Corporation
  • CenterPoint Energy
  • Cholla Petroleum, Inc.
  • Citigroup
  • City of Houston
  • DNV
  • EIG
  • Electric Power Engineers
  • Enchanted Rock
  • ENGIE North America Inc.
  • Eolian Energy
  • ERCOT
  • ESIG (Energy Systems Integration Group)
  • ESIG GETs User Group
  • HUT 8 Corp
  • J.P. Morgan
  • Jupiter Power
  • LCRA
  • Lightsource bp
  • MARA
  • Mission Energy
  • MWE
  • National Grid Renewables
  • NERC
  • NextEra Energy
  • NRG Energy
  • OCI Solar Power
  • Octopus Energy
  • Orennia
  • Origis Services
  • Pine Gate Renewables
  • Public Utility Commission of Texas
  • R Street Institute
  • Shell Energy North America
  • Sierra Club
  • State of Texas
  • STEM
  • Tenaska Power Services
  • Texas Industrial Energy Consumers
  • Texas Railroad Commission
  • Vistra
  • Wartsila
  • WATT Coalition

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

 

  • Developers, Storage & IPPs
  • Vendors
  • Engineering, EPC & Construction
  • Finance, Valuation & Insurance
  • Trading
  • Utilities, Wirescos & Public Power
  • Consulting and Analytics
  • Law Firms
  • End-users, Aggregators and Retailers

PAST PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS

 

  • ERCOT
  • Public Utility Commission of Texas
  • Railroad Commission
  • IOUs and Public Power:

  • AEP Texas
  • Austin Energy
  • Brazos Electric Cooperative
  • Bryan Texas Utilities
  • Centerpoint Energy
  • CPS Energy
  • Exelon
  • Golden Spread Electric Coop
  • Hunt Energy
  • LCRA
  • Liberty Power
  • New Braunfels Utilities
  • Oncor Electric Delivery
  • Vistra
  • Xcel Energy
  • Developers and IPPs:

  • Acciona Energy USA Global
  • AES Clean Energy
  • Apex Clean Energy
  • Avangrid Renewables
  • Avantus
  • Boralex
  • Broad Reach Power
  • Calpine
  • Competitive Power Solutions
  • Constellation
  • Convergent Energy and Power
  • Deriva
  • EDF Renewables
  • Edison Energy
  • Enbridge
  • Enchanted Rock
  • Engie
  • FlexGen Power Systems
  • Hecate Grid
  • Lightsource bp
  • Longroad Energy
  • LS Power
  • National Grid Renewables
  • Nexamp
  • Nextera
  • NRG Energy
  • Orsted
  • Pattern Energy
  • Pine Gate Renewables
  • Qcells USA
  • Recurrent Energy
  • Renewable Energy Systems (RES)
  • Repsol Renewables North America
  • REV Renewables
  • RWE Renewables America
  • Savion, LLC
  • Solar Ranch
  • Southern Power
  • Spearmint Energy
  • Sunrun
  • Tenaska
  • Tesla
  • TexGen Power
  • Wartsila
  • Engineering and EPCs:

  • Bechtel Enterprises
  • Burns & McDonnell
  • Electric Power Engineer, LLC
  • Mortenson

    Engineering and EPCs (Cont.):

  • Primoris Services Corp.
  • Rosendin Electric, Inc.
  • Ulteig
  • WSP Golder
  • Analytics, Consulting Services and Platforms:

  • AB Power Advisors
  • Ascend Analytics
  • Aurora Energy Research
  • cQuant.io
  • Customized Energy Solutions
  • DNV
  • E3
  • Empower Energy
  • Energy Exemplar
  • Enverus
  • enXchange
  • Fractal Energy Storage Consultants
  • FTI Consulting
  • Gaiascope, Inc.
  • Gee Strategies Group
  • GridBeyond
  • Schneider Electric
  • TRC Companies
  • Equipment and Service Providers:

  • Anza / Division of Borrego
  • Caterpillar
  • GE Renewables
  • Hanwha QCELLS
  • Mitsubishi Electric
  • Hitachi Energy
  • Ingeteam
  • Finance and Investment:

  • Active Power Investments LLC
  • Arch Insurance
  • Bank of America
  • Bostonia Partners
  • CIT Bank
  • Citi
  • Eolian, LP
  • Fortescue Future Industries North America
  • Goldman Sachs
  • JPMorgan
  • Leyline Renewable Capital, LLC
  • Marathon Capital
  • Mitsubishi HC Capital (USA)
  • Munich RE
  • Pathward
  • Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners
  • Resurety
  • U.S. Bank
  • Traders and Power Marketers:

  • ArcLight Capital Partners, LLC
  • Citadel
  • Enel X Advisory
  • Engie Energy Marketing
  • Goldman Sachs
  • JERA Americas Inc.
  • J.P. Morgan
  • Mercuria Energy America, LLC
  • Mitsui & Co.
  • OTC Global Holdings
  • PetroChina International (America), Inc.
  • Phillips 66
  • Shell Energy North America
  • Tenaska
  • Tokyo Gas America
  • Vistra

2024 RECAP

 

700+

Event Participants

105

Expert Speakers

21

Content-Packed Sessions

A pie chart detailing the audience breakdown from last year's event

VENUE

Austin Marriott Hotel
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Austin Marriott Downtown
304 East Cesar Chavez Street
Austin, TX 78701, US
Phone: (512) 457-1111

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Baker Botts

Website

Baker Botts is a globally respected law firm with 725 lawyers and 14 international offices. We are driven by the highest ethical and professional standards. This professionalism, combined with industry knowledge and insights and our understanding of the law, helps us to deliver effective, innovative solutions for our clients.

For more than 175 years, Baker Botts has delivered results-oriented services, establishing us as a leading law firm. Our reputation is complemented by our leadership in government, the judiciary and our communities. Regardless of size, sector or jurisdiction of a client, our commitment is to help achieve their business objectives.

McDermott Will & Emery LLP

Website

McDermott Will & Emery propels the success of the world’s most respected, dynamic and important organizations. Together, we fuel missions, knock down barriers and shape markets. As a business operating in the highly specialized energy sector, you encounter unique legal challenges that require a practical and complete understanding of your industry. Our dedicated, full-service global energy team uses broad market knowledge to deliver coordinated counsel around the world, focusing on your particular transactional and regulatory needs in service of your business objectives. To help you resolve complex issues, comply with new regulations and stay a step ahead of the competition, we monitor both macro trends and local issues within the industry. With a track record of success and decades of experience in domestic markets, cross-border representations and coordinating work in foreign jurisdictions, we are well positioned to provide you with comprehensive advice in any area of energy law.

Orennia

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Founded in 2021, Orennia is the leading all-in-one platform for accurate data, predictive analytics and actionable insights across the energy transition. Orennia’s platform is relied upon by the most sophisticated investors and developers to make more efficient capital-allocation decisions and maximize returns in the solar, wind, storage, power, RNG, CCUS, clean fuels and hydrogen sectors. The technology that powers Orennia’s platform delivers an unparalleled experience, distilling information into actionable insights to give clients a competitive edge. 

Ascend Analytics

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Ascend Analytics, an innovative leader at the forefront of the energy transition, offers advanced software and consulting services that capture the evolving and real-time dynamics of energy markets. Ascend Analytics provides its customers with optimized and comprehensive decision analysis that span long-term planning to real-time operations in the electric power supply industry.

Leveraging its proprietary software and more than 20 years of expertise, Ascend bridges fundamental physical system conditions with financial outcomes. The company provides critical and highly precise insights to steward capital investments and manage operations, making it an invaluable and key partner to utilities, developers, financiers, and corporate off-takers in managing the complexities of energy portfolios and markets .

The company’s unique ecosystem – which includes planning, valuation, risk management, and power market operations – is trusted by more than 250 leading-edge businesses and is the platform-of-choice that fuels more than $6 billion in asset investments.

DNV

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DNV is a leading independent assurance and risk management company. We provide clients with advice and market insights, services, certification, and advanced digital solutions grounded in deep engineering and technical expertise that help them seize opportunities and tackle risks arising from the energy transition. This includes averting a climate crisis and ensuring an equitable, sustainable energy future. Our experts empower customers across the energy value chain to de-risk, decarbonize, maximize value, and safeguard life, property, and the environment. We are also leading by example, with a bold ambition to become a carbon positive company.

Electric Power Engineers

Website

A leader in grid reliability and resiliency, Electric Power Engineers (EPE) has partnered with power and energy clients across the globe for over 50 years. EPE’s client-centric approach delivers unmatched expertise throughout the project lifecycle, with a platform of comprehensive services and proprietary solutions spanning utility engineering, grid and resource integration, reliability and compliance, digitalization, and grid analytics, as well as innovative software solutions with ENER-i.AI. Committed to designing and developing the grid of the future, EPE’s highly experienced team of detail-oriented consultants are passionate about helping clients address complex engineering and grid modeling challenges, bridge gaps, and gain visibility into the evolving complexities of the grid. Learn more about EPE at epeconsulting.com.

National Grid Renewables

Website

National Grid Renewables, part of the competitive, unregulated National Grid Ventures division of National Grid (NYSE: NGG), develops, owns and operates large-scale renewable energy assets across the United States, including solar, wind and battery storage. As a farmer-friendly and community-focused business, National Grid Renewables develops projects for corporations and utilities that seek to repower America’s electricity grid by reigniting local economies and reinvesting in a sustainable, clean energy future. National Grid Renewables has a robust development pipeline of wind, solar and battery storage projects in various stages of development throughout the United States, as well as geographically diverse operational assets across the country. It supports National Grid’s vision of being at the heart of a clean, fair, and affordable energy future for all. To learn more about National Grid Renewables, visit www.nationalgridrenewables.com.

Origis Services

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Origis Services delivers the promise of clean energy with operations and maintenance (O&M) services for solar and energy storage across North America. The team manages a diverse utility scale and distributed generation portfolio with experienced professionals backed by a state-of-the-art NERC CIP Compliant Remote Operations Center (ROC) located at its headquarters in Austin, Texas. Visit us at: www.OrigisServices.com

Stem

Website

Stem, Inc. (NYSE: STEM) provides solutions that address the challenges of today’s dynamic energy market. By combining advanced energy storage solutions with Athena®, a world-class AI-powered analytics platform, Stem enables customers and partners to optimize energy use by automatically switching between battery power, onsite generation and grid power. Stem’s solutions help enterprise customers benefit from a clean, adaptive energy infrastructure and achieve a wide variety of goals, including expense reduction, resilience, sustainability, environmental and corporate responsibility and innovation. Stem also offers full support for solar partners interested in adding storage to standalone, community or commercial solar projects – both behind and in front of the meter. For more information, visit www.stem.com

Wärtsilä Energy

Website

Wärtsilä Energy leads the transition towards a 100% renewable energy future. We help our customers in decarbonization by developing market-leading technologies. These cover future-fuel enabled balancing power plants, hybrid solutions, energy storage and optimization technology, including the GEMS energy management platform. Wärtsilä Energy’s lifecycle services are designed to increase efficiency, promote reliability and guarantee operational performance. Our track record comprises 74 GW of power plant capacity and more than 80 energy storage systems delivered to 180 countries around the world.

Anza Renewables

Website

Anza is a revolutionary platform that empowers solar and energy storage equipment buyers and developers to use advanced data and technology to compare more products and make confident decisions faster. The result is increased profit, reduced risk, and massive time-saving. With Anza, clients can focus on higher-value work without chasing down data or using manual tools. They can access real-time pricing and extensive technical, trade risk, counterparty, and contract term data from 95% of the U.S. module supply. Anza’s Effective $/Watt analytics enable users to evaluate modules based on production and installation costs. It provides energy storage lifecycle cost analytics across AC and DC BESS. Anza’s vision is to help every utility-scale and DG buyer and developer make optimal design and procurement decisions.

Anza was born from internal tools at Borrego that maximized the financial value of its own projects. In 2021, Anza launched as a standalone application. anzarenewables.com

Aurora Energy Research

Website

Aurora Energy Research is a market-leading energy analytics company. With over 650 experts covering European, Australian and US power markets, Aurora provides transaction support, project finance, and subscription insight to utilities, developers, investors and lenders. The core of the business built around belief in the power of sophisticated modelling and data to help deliver actionable insights for the energy transition. Aurora is one of the few respected energy pricing analytics providers that delivers sufficiently rigorous and accurate forecasts to be bankable across a number of regions. Aurora’s head office in the USA is in Austin, TX.

The Megawatt Group

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The Megawatt Group connects forward-thinking, U.S.-based solar buyers with the top Tier-1 Module manufacturers in the world. Every day we put our resources, expertise and access to work for our clients. From helping EPCs streamline procurement to giving overseas manufacturers a foothold in the US market, we strive to help our partners – and the solar industry itself – thrive.

Advanced Power Alliance

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Conservative Texans for Energy Innovation

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Texas Advanced Energy Business Alliance

Website

Texas Competitive Power Advocates (TCPA)

Website

Texas Geothermal Energy Alliance

Website

Texas Hydrogen Alliance

Website

Texas Solar Energy Society

Website

The Energy Professionals Association (TEPA)

Website

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